Lily Luna's wand was NOT ordinary. Firstly, it was long, 15" long to be exact. Secondly, it was almost unyielding making it a polar opposite of her father's, whose own wand could be described as 'nice and supple'. It was crafted out of Yew, which was interesting but not in the least bit extraordinary except for the wood's correlation with the wand once held by her father's enemy, the evil Lord Voldemort. But, perhaps the strangest thing about Lily Luna Potter's wand was that it was one of the very few British-made wands that possessed a Thestral tail hair as its core. Her father, though taken aback, did congratulate his little girl telling her of all the good she would one day do with that very wand. He went on to ask Mr. Ollivander more about the wand that had chosen his eleven year old daughter and was rewarded with a story of the extremely elderly man's father and previous owner of the wand shop and how he used many more cores then those chosen by the current Mr. Ollivander. The wandmaker's father had been a fan of Peacock feather cores but also had used the tail hairs of Kelpies, Thestrals, Sphinxes, and Griffins. Even though they were outdated in his opinion, Mr. Ollivander had saved a few of his late father's stronger wands 'just in case'.
When Lily and her father finally left Ollivander's they were met by her Uncle Ron and her Aunt Hermione and their family. While Hermione commented on how great Yew is as a dueling wood, Ron merely said that his niece would win every duel for Gryffindor unless she was against his Rosey who was in Ravenclaw.
Rose, though, rolled her eyes and said to the adults, "Lily Luna is not going to be in Gryffindor, I mean, she's brave but she is no Lion."